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The "Yellow" dot on Florida is Clearwater... aka where I live
The first pic was Helene.... The second pic is the new one called Milton.
The third one is self explanatory. Maybe I should do like Donald Trump and email everybody-> "Send Money"
I had an apartment in Safety Harbor for a few years, lived in Clearwater for a bit and then Largo for a year. Moved to Carolwood north of Tampa for a while and then downtown Tampa for a year or so. Ten plus years altogether. I still make it there once in a while to see the one or two living friends
OK... This morning's good news is that the "Eye" of the storm has been projected to be South of my area instead of right on top... The bad news is that it's getting stronger and is projected to be a CAT 4.
I lived at the top of Old Tampa Bay for about three years. The big fear was a hurricane would come right up the bay. This one is pointed right at it. I'd be gone when it gets there.
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Hope you're doing OK, Steve.
I know Florida is a great climate but it seems like a terrifying place to live. 'Gators, floods, hurricanes and the constant risk of a rampaging Ron De Santis. It's almost as bad as Australia.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter - Winston Churchill
Hadoop actually sounds more like the way they greet each other in Yorkshire - Inferrd
I know Florida is a great climate but it seems like a terrifying place to live. 'Gators, floods, hurricanes and the constant risk of a rampaging Ron De Santis. It's almost as bad as Australia.
Thanks.... I'm a very BLUE kind of guy...So Gov Ron can be a lot to tolerate. I've decided that he's worse than Texas Gov Abbott ...where I came from.
We do have a lot of critters... I'm feeding a feral kitty kat and trying to make friends with him... Some darn Opossum is eating a lot of the food. After being here 3.5 years, I saw my first two "live" snakes... One was a five foot Black Racer and the other was a twelve inch garden snake.... Both headed under my house...
We have Armadillos and more than our fair share of Coyotes. Course the coyotes are here to eat the feral cats that I shouldn't be feeding.
I do kind of have my eyes open for a place to live that is a bit less dangerous... California wildfires seem interesting
I should have known all along the democrats were affecting the weather to affect red states.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X , saying: "Yes they can control the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done." The post, which had more than 40 million views at the time of writing, was also debunked via a Community Note on X.
Greene also posted what she described as a map of areas affected by Helene – in states including Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas — with an overlay showing the area is home to a majority of Republican voters.
The democrats got the technology from the development of the Jewish space lasers that start the forest fires. Even Alex Jones agrees "Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones also amplified the claim, saying "Bottom line the federal government could have killed the storm in the Gulf of Mexico." Both Greene and Jones pointed to cloud seeding as evidence that the government controlled Hurricane Helene."
"Trump claimed without evidence Monday that the Biden administration and North Carolina’s Democratic governor were “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.” And Trump adviser Stephen Miller said President Joe Biden “failed to evacuate or rescue” U.S. citizens, “just like you failed in Afghanistan.’'"
I've come to realize that even if Trump loses the election the same kind of intentional lying and dividing us will continue well into the future The republican "talking heads" will continue with the lies and the dividing also. Nothing will really be different in that respect. It is just our country today.
Usually both or more parties tell lies so you cannot escape that probably in any country and it's in human nature. OK maybe Sweden or Denmark or something but the rest of the world, you will get lies and you have to filter them.
What matter most tho is what a governments is actually doing. If you tell lies that you did not have sexual relationships with that woman (wink wink) and you rule with justice then it completely irrelevant.
Getting back to HURRICANES..... There are plenty of lies coming from the orange man.
FEMA passed out PETTY CASH checks in the amount of $750 to help people. Dump Trump is spreading lies about that it's all the money that people will get.... ETC ETC BLA BLA BLA
Politicians have always lied but we are in new territory with Trump and his surrogates. They are complete falsehoods that that hurt people's lives. They stopped caring about lying and have made an art of it. In all my years following politics I have never seen so much disgusting outright lying before. It makes traditional political "lying" harmless in comparison. I just can't see justifying the level of political dishonesty we are experiencing with Trump and his sycophants by saying "they all do it".
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The democrats got the technology from the development of the Jewish space lasers that start the forest fires. Even Alex Jones agrees "Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones also amplified the claim, saying "Bottom line the federal government could have killed the storm in the Gulf of Mexico." Both Greene and Jones pointed to cloud seeding as evidence that the government controlled Hurricane Helene."
That is all the evidence I need.
The scariest thing about that is that 40 million people viewed that post.
I called my old landlady, who lives right in the path of this one. I knew she wouldn't evacuate. She always thinks it won't amount to much, and I could never convince her that 'storm surge' didn't just mean 'big waves'. Fortunately, she's not in the path anymore. True to form, she was not going to evacuate, but her son drove up, stuffed her in a car, and departed. At least he's taking it seriously.
She thinks that the weather folks always exaggerate. She's kind of right, too. If you say it's going to be mild and it's bad, lots of people die. If you say it's going to be bad and it isn't, then lots of people start saying that it was exaggerated, but at least they are alive to say so.
I called my old landlady, who lives right in the path of this one. I knew she wouldn't evacuate. She always thinks it won't amount to much, and I could never convince her that 'storm surge' didn't just mean 'big waves'. Fortunately, she's not in the path anymore. True to form, she was not going to evacuate, but her son drove up, stuffed her in a car, and departed. At least he's taking it seriously.
She thinks that the weather folks always exaggerate. She's kind of right, too. If you say it's going to be mild and it's bad, lots of people die. If you say it's going to be bad and it isn't, then lots of people start saying that it was exaggerated, but at least they are alive to say so.
It is almost like "crying wolf" but I see at least two reasons. One is coverage and the audience, you want to keep their attention and watching, there is money involved. Two, I think they need to report on the worst cases. Minimizing could be worse than exaggerating. What ever the reason I think it does add to complacency. My brother lives on the east coast near Cape Canaveral. His local weather report is saying 50 to 60 MPH wind gusts.
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Yeah, it's crying wolf, but the wolf IS there, you just don't know whether it will attack you.
A wildfire started on the northern outskirts of Boise, last week. There is a three-stage evacuation order process called Ready, Set, Go. For some housing developments, the evacuation got to the "Set" stage. I saw pictures from my friend's house. The fire was a couple dozen feet from his back fence. Everybody there had their cars packed and pointed out into the street in case the fire line didn't hold. It did hold, though, and no structures were lost. That doesn't mean people should have ignored the fire, though, and the same is true with a storm like this. You have to prepare for the worst case, cause you're already prepared for the best case.
Yeah, it's crying wolf, but the wolf IS there, you just don't know whether it will attack you.
A wildfire started on the northern outskirts of Boise, last week. There is a three-stage evacuation order process called Ready, Set, Go. For some housing developments, the evacuation got to the "Set" stage. I saw pictures from my friend's house. The fire was a couple dozen feet from his back fence. Everybody there had their cars packed and pointed out into the street in case the fire line didn't hold. It did hold, though, and no structures were lost. That doesn't mean people should have ignored the fire, though, and the same is true with a storm like this. You have to prepare for the worst case, cause you're already prepared for the best case.
Then again there is really "crying wolf"...Everyone in Trump's "sharpie" forecast were probably scared
And people want him back in charge...
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Have you evacuated, Steve? From the news we're getting over here it really sounds like this one's going to get bad.
My Sister in Law works in a Huge Church.... I'll be sleeping in her office tonight... Solid Brick building and next to no windows where we will be. I'm heading that way in three hours.
The "OLD CRY WOLF" part.... Several guys on Nextdoor are ranting and raving about how the storm isn't going to be as bad as the NEWS Media says.... One guy even filmed himself holding a straw to the tv screen to show that path... When pushed to explain just how to Sugar Coat a new story like this -> Crickets
I keep bringing politics into this thread because politics are involved in this hurricane like never before. It is affecting relief efforts and is detrimental to all of us. Relief and government officials are asking for it to stop across the board. Yet the hurricane is being used politically in a blatant way across news fronts. It needs mentioned. It started with Helene and is expanding with Milton. A new political low.
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Just to add as a second thought, political attacks about an administration's response to disasters go way back. Just not during, a time for coming together.
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"A severe solar storm is headed to Earth that could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes, space weather forecasters said Wednesday."
Glad it didn't turn out to be the worst case scenario. Still, a lot of damage.
The bright side was watching those silly reporters standing out in the storm giving there updates. I'm sure they could find a way to report without actually standing in the middle of it but what's the fun in that.
NO ELECTRICITY Thursday - Friday and up till 5:30pm Saturday.
My Mobile Home Park has 654 units... and in 3.5 years of living here, we had more damage with this storm than all previous 3.5 years combined.
BUT, I only had a couple hundred dollars worth of cosmetic damage to the fascia (front of roof) and lost well over a hundred bucks worth of stuff in the refridge... My super idea of using Tupperware to make large ICE didn't pan out. In two days it turns into water....
One of the saving graces was the 65ºF weather in the evenings... It was perfect open window weather.
Should have gotten a few Yeti coolers and a bit of dry ice. That would have lasted a week, or so, most likely. Of course, dry ice is a bit colder than the regular stuff. I took some dry ice in a cooler to keep ice cream sandwiches cold for a four day trip. The cooler wasn't as good as a Yeti, but the dry ice lasted until the last day....and you could have built a house with those sandwiches. They became something like ice cream sucking candies, as they were too hard to bite.